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| 1947 |
| | | Francis Poulenc makes an opera of Guillaume Apollinaire's play Les Mamelles de Tirésias ('The Breasts of Tiresias') | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Thor Heyerdahl sets sail across the Pacific from Peru in a balsa wood boat, the Kon-Tiki | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Bertolt Brecht's play The Life of Galileo has its premiere in Los Angeles with Charles Laughton in the lead | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Marlon Brando stars on Broadway in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar named Desire | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Hungarian-born British engineer Dennis Gabor creates the first three-dimensional image from reflected light, subsequently known as a hologram | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Saxophonist 'Bird' Parker forms his own quintet in New York, often to be heard at Minton's Playhouse in Harlem | |
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| 1947 |
| | | 33-year old Aung San, prime minister of Burma, and six of his ministers are assassinated during a cabinet meeting | |
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| 1947 |
| | | In granting independence to India, Britain partitions the subcontinent along sectarian lines into Pakistan and the republic of India | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Louis Mountbatten, the last viceroy of India, becomes also the first governor-general | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Jawaharlal Nehru becomes prime minister of the newly independent republic of India | |
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